A. Ishida et al., PHOTOCURRENT GENERATION BY SURFACE-PLASMON EXCITATION VIA ELECTRON-TRANSFER QUENCHING OF EXCITED PORPHYRINS LINKED COVALENTLY TO A GOLD FILM ELECTRODE, Chemistry Letters, (3), 1998, pp. 267-268
Photocurrent was generated by surface plasmon excitation upon a porphy
rin-modified gold film electrode using polarized light at 632.8 nm lig
ht in which electron transfer occurred from the excited porphyrin link
ed covalently to the gold electrode to a quencher such as molecular ox
ygen and methyl viologen in an aqueous solution.